To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs, ' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

...there is so much beauty in the trying, and in the failing, and in the trying again.

Wouldn't it be nice to positively start each day by counting your blessings? Isn't it obvious that the habit of counting your problems is an enemy to your peace of mind?

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.

The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex.

The Word is the master key for the whole world, inasmuch as through its potency the doors of the hearts of men, which in reality are the doors of heaven, are unlocked.

Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunter’s home.

As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.

Hell, when I was in high school, a "drive-by shooting" meant somebody had their rear end hanging out a car window!

A problem shared is attention gained.

If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.